4 papers
ShapeForce: Low-Cost Soft Robotic Wrist for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Jinxuan Zhu, Zihao Yan, Yangyu Xiao +5
Contact feedback is essential for contact-rich robotic manipulation, as it allows the robot to detect subtle interaction changes and adjust its actions accordingly. Six-axis force-…
LISN: Language-Instructed Social Navigation with VLM-based Controller Modulating
Junting Chen, Yunchuan Li, Panfeng Jiang +5
Towards human-robot coexistence, socially aware navigation is significant for mobile robots. Yet existing studies on this area focus mainly on path efficiency and pedestrian collis…
Manual2Skill: Learning to Read Manuals and Acquire Robotic Skills for Furniture Assembly Using Vision-Language Models
Chenrui Tie, Shengxiang Sun, Jinxuan Zhu +7
Humans possess an extraordinary ability to understand and execute complex manipulation tasks by interpreting abstract instruction manuals. For robots, however, this capability rema…
ET-SEED: Efficient Trajectory-Level SE(3) Equivariant Diffusion Policy
Chenrui Tie, Yue Chen, Ruihai Wu +4
Imitation learning, e.g., diffusion policy, has been proven effective in various robotic manipulation tasks. However, extensive demonstrations are required for policy robustness an…